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Tanker airplane: Boeing congregates to USAF tender with 767 modified

New York, Usa - Still perhaps the participation by jv Northrop Grumman-Airbus

Seattle's giant, Boeing, has proposed a modified version of its B-767 airplane in answer to the new call for bids KC-X for a worth of USD 35 billion, launched by American defense to renew the fleet of obsolete KC-135 tankers of the USAF. "We answer with multirole new generation tanker, cheaper in management costs compared to the Airbus, that is greater and heavier", is read in a Boeing note that...

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Rome, Italy, 03/08/2010 17:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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